Today is Short Shrift Election 2010 Wednesday. This is where I half-heartedly try to interpret the results knowing that I don’t know any more than everybody else that knows nothing.
With that, let’s ring the starting bell and get to the incoherence.
Kentucky: The Republican primary should be of deep concern to Republicans. Rand Paul won. This may or may not be a disaster. The establishment candidate backed by Mitch McConnell lost badly.
I do not know enough about Rand Paul to conclude that he is as awful as his father. What I do know is that the Paulbots are trying to hijack Republican central committees around the country. If they succeed, the Republican Party is dead. The Paulbots are not Constitutionalists. They are Isolationists. This is a global world, and retreating back to a WWI mentality is not the answer.
Some will say that the Tea Party won something, but winning a primary is not winning a general election. The Tea Party has the same record as the Netroots. Ned Lamont won a primary, but not the general. The problem is not that a candidate backed by the Tea Party won. The problem is the Paulbots. Rand Paul should be monitored very closely.
Arkansas–Blanche Lincoln is in deeper trouble than the Blanche from Streetcar Named Desire. Yet the Stanley Kawalski who smacked her around was the Lieutenant Governor. Keep in mind, she was ahead in the last count. However, to even have a primary opponent get 40% is a loss of confidence similar to LBJ decades ago. A runoff between these two will only weaken Lincoln. The Republicans have a golden opportunity to pick up this seat.
Pennsylvania–Joe Sestak took down Arlen Specter, but Republicans should not be celebrating about this. Sestak may be wrong on virtually every issue from a GOP standpoint, but at least he has principles. He stands for something. Personally I feel the American people deserve more races with clear distinct opponents. Pennsylvania gave us that with Harris Wofford and Rick Santorum, and has done so again with Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey.
The Democrats may have saved this seat. People can debate whether the mood is anti-incumbent or anti-Democrat. However, even if people are angry at the Democrats, Sestak can say that he was not part of the problem. He was not there. Barack Obama had the luxury of not having voted either way on the Iraq War. Sestak did not vote either way on the bailouts. Pat Toomey and Joe Sestak will run a close nailbiter.
Yet if Arlen Specter runs as an independent, all heck could break loose. The man has been a Democrat, Republican, and Democrat again. Being an independent is perfectly within his character. For political junkies, it certainly be a fun race. Compared to Robert Byrd, Specter at 80 is a Spring chicken.
The special election in Pennsylvania for the congressional seat of the late John Murtha was won handily by the Democrat. The left will trumpet this as a major victory, but the fact is this was a long time Democratic seat, and they saved it temporarily. Had the Republicans snagged it, it would have been similar to the May 1994 wins in Kentucky and Oklahoma that led to the GOP tidal wave.
One question about this special election is…why even bother? I know they can’t keep the seat vacant, but in 6 months both men will do it again. It just seems so pointless to waste money on 2 elections so close together.
In Indiana, a special election will take place because another GOP congressman got caught with his pants down. For the love of God will Republicans either:
1) Keep it in your pants…or…
2) Be like me and admit upfront you like to ball women. It is not the sex. It is the hypocrisy. Do not run on a family values platform if you are going to be a letch. This is a safe conservative seat, and if Republicans lose it, they deserve to lose. I have had it with Republicans behaving like me on Spring Break in Miami. I am single and a private citizen. One day I will be married and not be allowed to screw other women. That is how it works.
By the time people are done dissecting the results, the special election in Hawaii on May 22 will be ready for analysis. That would be a major pickup for Republicans. Rep Abercrombie gave up a safe Democratic seat to run for Governor against Duke Aiona. Linda Lingle is retiring, and this election will tell if she is a trend or an aberration. In the congressional seat, Republican Charles Djou is benefiting from two Democrats killing each other. Neither one will back down, and they may split the Democratic vote just enough to elect Djou. The media will portray this as tragic, since only Republican infighting is good for America.
This concludes Short Shrift Election 2010 Wednesday. In 6 months we get to do it all again on a much larger scale.
eric
I appreciate many libetarian positions, except their foreign policy.
Ron Paul as pres would have me bulding freaking bunkers everywhere, stocking arms and survival kits. Or moving to New Zealand.
Did you see him during the primary debates ? I thought the veins in his forehead were gonna start squirting blood all over the place. He looked like he was loosing it.
Nah, I dont want him anywhere near any red buttons
Whats gonna happen when Rand needs to vote on foreign policy and security ?
Will he follow in his dads steps and move to remove us from some of the most strategically significant spots in the world ? Does he also belive that 911 was our fault ?
Anyone know ?
I love the limited government, legalized pot, fiscal responsability thing but libertarian foreign policy scares the bejeezus out of me. Its terribly naive
“Rep Abercrombie gave up a safe Democratic seat to run for Governor against Duke Aiona. ‘
Lingle made some needed fiscal changes that really pee`d off the liberals here by taking away their sugar daddy that hold a majority every which way. The trend might be reveresed of what we see in the mainland as many state and fed employees here make up 40% of our work force
Abercrombie, while being our district rep smoked a joint with my father and I while listening to Black Sabbath when I was 16-17.
Too bad I cant prove it
“I do not know enough about Rand Paul to conclude that he is as awful as his father. What I do know is that the Paulbots are trying to hijack Republican central committees around the country. If they succeed, the Republican Party is dead. The Paulbots are not Constitutionalists. They are Isolationists. This is a global world, and retreating back to a WWI mentality is not the answer.”
All that should be the least of your concerns! His name is “Rand” Paul. We all know who he was named after – the lunatic Ayn Rand. These guys aren’t “Constitutionalists,” they’re not “Isolationists,” (really, they aren’t either). They are a wierd dualist combination: CHRISTIAN OBJECTIVISTS. In other words – they’re INSANE.
“Pennsylvania gave us that with Harris Wofford and Rick Santorum, and has done so again with Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey.”
if your point here is that the voters of Pennsylvania are completely unhinged, I completely agree.
I like Sestak, for the most part, and he probably will beat Toomey, a man who thinks that devastated American cities should be left to fend for themselves. I’m sure Pennsylvanians, who to this day still remember the classist disaster of the Johnston flood, will make Toomey pay very dearly for his soulessness.
“The Democrats may have saved this seat. People can debate whether the mood is anti-incumbent or anti-Democrat.”
funny you didn’t mantion anti-Republican. Congressional Republicans are the most unpopular political set in the nation.
“Yet if Arlen Specter runs as an independent, all heck could break loose.”
To say the least! Who knows what would happen?
“The special election in Pennsylvania for the congressional seat of the late John Murtha was won handily by the Democrat. The left will trumpet this as a major victory, but the fact is this was a long time Democratic seat, and they saved it temporarily.”
This was a big victory. Murtha was not nearly the “liberal” the Right made him out to be. His district could easily vote GOP if the right guy runs. But Tim Burns was a Rightwingnut whackjob – a proponent of that stupid “Fair Tax” among other loony things. This bodes badly for the GOP come November: these “Tea Partiers” and “Paulbots” and “Fair Taxers” will probably not fair very well in November. This is going to mitigate GOP gains in the Mid-Terms.
“For the love of God will Republicans either:
1) Keep it in your pants…or…
2) Be like me and admit upfront you like to ball women. It is not the sex. It is the hypocrisy. Do not run on a family values platform if you are going to be a letch.”
HOOOOOOORAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!
JMJ
Almost everyone Obama stumped for lost.
Coat tails aint workin so well
Souder ?
Preaching abstinence to kids at certain ages might be a good thing but its hardly anymore realistic than expecting the amount of marriages subjected to infidelty to simply vanish.
Leading by example ?
If the right is going to set the pole so high for themselves they’d better learn to clear it.
Hell, at least they have poles…
Liberals only have speed bumps to clear. And they dont even slow down for them
“Almost everyone Obama stumped for lost.
Coat tails aint workin so well”
Same goes for the mainstream GOP candidates, Micky. It looks like a bipartisan Spring Cleaning Party!
Liberals don’t have to live up to impossible morays. We don’t set such stupid, unrealistic standards. And we really don’t care all that much about what our pols do with their personal lives, as long as they too are not hypocrites about it. Vitter, Ensign, Sanford – the GOP has some serious hypocrisy issues.
JMJ
Yeah, and moonbatsdont have to worry about looking like hypocrits because they lack the ability to actually commit to any decent morals and ethics.
If you make no promises you’re safe, right ?
Oh, wait, maybe I should list all the contradictions and broken promises I’ve lost count of in the last 18 months ?
The fact is that theres a referendum on incumbent liberals taking place whether you like it or not.
The majority of Americans are downright pi$$ed at the radicals responsible for all the takeovers, bailouts, growth in govt.,bills shoved down our throats and totally fabricated claims against the Arizona bill, cap and trade, regulating the internet, racial pandering and fear mongering ontop of outspending any previous administration in only 18 months.
“Radical” is an understatement.
The people have seen nothing but radical sht since the one waltzed into office and they’re scared.
As it stands according to all reputable polls the majority of the country trust republicans on the budget and national security more than they do moonbats
You dont care about polls ?
BS, thats why you guys have MSNBC, CNN,Huffy Post doin polls ? Gimme a break
Liberals lead the march against AIDS so they can free themselves up to screw around a little more without having to worry bout their peckers falling off
Abortion gives license for careless promiscuity.
Teaching sex ed at younger ages sets the pace for sex at earlier ages. And if that kid gets knocked up, its cool, just have that baby aborted.
The 60s sexual revolution is the foundation of what changed the dems from nuking Japan to moonbats screwing anything not tied down.
Well, maybe some bondage.
What few “liberals” there are in the halls of power in America do make some pretty crazy promises themselves, Micky. I know that. However, they don’t assert that God speaks to them and favors them and loves them better than everyone else because they’re such wonderful exemplars of morality.
I’d love to see your list of “incumbant liberals.” I can’t think of any off the top of my head who are in any serious trouble, except maybe Alan Grayson (who I love, but I know he’s in trouble here in Florida, where the sun apparently is so strong it cooks the brain). Most of the incumbant Democrats are moderates.
I don’t think the majority of Americans are all that concerned with the same things as the majority of conservatives. You have to remember – and Obama’s election should have proved this – a majority of Americans just aren’t as socially conservative as they used to be. Thank God! LOL!
JMJ
Fact of the matter is this.
the left is banging their chests right now about how these elections are a referendum on the right as well as the left incumbents.
NOT !!!
The righties that have lost their career posts were freaking RINOs who towed the line on liberal policies and voted for, recieved or supported TARP, stimulus, cap n trade, bailouts and healthcare.
Wise up, its your partys sht that everyone is tired of